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Script Salon: Besties and Besitos: A Queer Romantic Comedy

Sunday, March 9, 2025
7:30pm to 9:30pm

Holy Trinity Anglican Church
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March
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Join us as we present Besties and Besitos: A Queer Romantic Comedy by Sara Campos-Silvius. Shy but determined Rosa heads back into dating with the help of her friends.

Directed by Asia Weinkauf-Bowman and read by Deviani Andrea, Tatiana Duque, Rebecca John, and Autumn Strom.

Sara Campos-Silvius (she/her) is a queer and multiracial Latine artist in amiskwacîwâskahican / Edmonton in Treaty 6 Territory in Alberta, Canada. She is a writer, director, producer, and performer creating work in prose, poetry, theatre, and film. Sara’s short films Power Chord and The Inner Ring have screened at festivals such as the Edmonto­n International Film Festival, Toronto International Women Film Festival, and Montreal’s Image+Nation Queer Short Film Festival. She was an Alberta Playwrights’ Network IBPOC Playwright In Residence 2023-24 where she penned a new queer rom-com which will be coming to audiences soon. Her playwright production credits include the award-winning comedy-horror Moonie And Maybee Dig Up A Grave at Nextfest. Her first poetry chapbook Sword and Smoke is published by Armistice Press and her short fiction and poetry have appeared in publications such as Capital City Press Anthology and Hungry Zine.

She has performed and presented at many events including Nextfest, Found Fest, and CONNECTIONS//COLLISIONS, and she has been a company member of the integrated disability arts dance company CRIPSiE since 2013. Check out Sara’s work at www.saracs.art and @saracsart on Instagram.


Holy Trinity Anglican Church

10037 84 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T6E 2G6

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